There are some exciting opportunities to leverage Xbox Live’s persisted chat infrastructure to help us build out an awesome Beam messaging/whispering/alerting system, and we’re evaluating the best “Beam friendly” way to present this now. No ETA on a release, but would love feedback on this feature.

Lots of people want the ability to change the color of their name in chat, but Matt and James have repeatedly said it's not the direction they want to go in for the chat experience. As an alternative, why not come up with a series of icons, similar to the Stanley icon that graces the Staff names, that can be purchased with sparks, and that a user can then choose to have adorn their name?

Since everyone is streaming games the idea of spoilers comes up a lot in the chatroom. Either talking about a game the streamer previously hosted or the current game. Some users who missed the stream do not want to read about a spoiler so we are forced to limit the chat. It would be nice if there was a spoiler tag that we could use that would display a "Spoiler" message where you could not read it without either hovering over the text or highlighting the text.

Not sure if this is easy to implement into your chat system but I think would be beneficial. Thanks for your time.

Since everyone is streaming games the idea of spoilers comes up a lot in the chatroom. Either talking about a game the streamer previously hosted or the current game. Some users who missed the stream do not want to read about a spoiler so we are forced to limit the chat. It would be nice if there was a spoiler tag that we could use that would display a "Spoiler" message where you could not read it without either hovering over the text or highlighting the text.

When tagged with the @ symbol, it'd been nice to have it highlighted to be easier to read and see you got tagged. This is especially useful when all chat names (except staff, pro, mod etc) so you don't miss something.

I'd like to be able to have an official chat filter that replaces bad words with *** or whatever, so my channel can remain Teen rated - and those who accidentally slip a bad word into their message aren't completely censored

What if Beam had an option where the streamer could opt to not show deleted messages from chat, but the messages still showed to the mods? This way, if you have a mod team that's on the ball, then when they remove an inappropriate message, the streamer isn't getting distracted by how terrible some of these messages can get? In a lot of cases, the streamer will never even see the messages, making the whole point of trolling a fruitless endeavor, but the mods will still have proof of the messages and can report and ban as necessary.

I know there are many streamers that, while they know trolls are just looking for attention, can still be very hurt by some of the messages they post and having those still staring them in the face even after being deleted causes a serious distraction. This would allow the mods to do what they do best, and let the streamer focus on the stream free of unwanted distraction.

What if Beam had an option where the streamer could opt to not show deleted messages from chat, but the messages still showed to the mods? This way, if you have a mod team that's on the ball, then when they remove an inappropriate message, the streamer isn't getting distracted by how terrible some of these messages can get? In a lot of cases, the streamer will never even see the messages, making the whole point of trolling a fruitless endeavor, but the mods will still have proof of the messages and can report and ban as necessary.

I was thinking that it would be useful if in the viewer list, it would highlight people who are in the same "Primary" team as the caster into another section. Similar to how it splits mods, Beam Pro members etc

I think this would be a useful way to highlight casters that viewers might not have discovered yet. As if they like one member of a team, they might be interested in other members too.

Ability to mute users. Especially people that tend to spam the same sentence. Continually spamming other people's chats off the screen is extremely rude. Sometimes the caster and mods don't do anything and allow this behaviour. So I think we as users should have more power to deal with users like that to make our own experience better. Having a toggle to mute by username would be perfect.

After subbing to a good number of casters recently, I've noticed some clashing emotes (Only 1 set but they still clash) and it makes me wonder, why are partners not made to have prefixes similar to twitch?

There are a number of advantages to this for a start.
1. There is going to be no clashes if when someone gets partnered, they have to pick a prefix that isn't taken. So for example the two clashing emotes I mentioned which are RocketBear and GhostFromTexas both using :rage may be :rbRage and :ghostRage retrospectively.

2. Having a prefix in my opinion makes emotes a lot easier to remember.

3. Beam is free to use the single word emotes without having to step around the partner emotes.

Most streamers already use a prefix and I don't have anything against those who aren't right now but I think to resolve any confusion in the future, all partners should me made to assign a prefix to their emotes :)

After subbing to a good number of casters recently, I've noticed some clashing emotes (Only 1 set but they still clash) and it makes me wonder, why are partners not made to have prefixes similar to twitch?

There are a number of advantages to this for a start.
1. There is going to be no clashes if when someone gets partnered, they have to pick a prefix that isn't taken. So for example the two clashing emotes I mentioned which are RocketBear and GhostFromTexas both using :rage may be :rbRage and :ghostRage retrospectively.

Default Users could have a range of colors, and Pro Users could have custom colors! :D
As a streamer, it's hard for me to keep up with chat because all the names are the same color, and i sometimes get lost in messages, not knowing where i left off/not knowing who is who in chat.

As a viewer, I love having my own color and being able to be different in chat!

Can you make a 'post-it' message in the chat? (see attached file)
I guess this will be a good way to communicate an info as a "permanent post-it" (it will shows despite the stream is offline) or till the streamer change it.

non-partnered get 3 emotes that only work in their own chat. Partnered streamers get an additional 2 local emotes and 4 global emotes +1 per so many subscribers they have.

This gives partners incentive, but it makes the stream more personal for the non-partnered ones as well. This will really help smaller streamers with building a community and bigger streamers with spreading their community.

Maybe one emote per team as well that works in the chat of all members of the teams.

I personally love BTTV's local emotes. They brought for me the join back in streaming on twitch. It is a shame that only half of the people could see it, though. It would be such a great thing to have on Beam as an inherrent feature.

non-partnered get 3 emotes that only work in their own chat. Partnered streamers get an additional 2 local emotes and 4 global emotes +1 per so many subscribers they have.

This gives partners incentive, but it makes the stream more personal for the non-partnered ones as well. This will really help smaller streamers with building a community and bigger streamers with spreading their community.

Maybe one emote per team as well that works in the chat of all members of the teams.

I personally love BTTV's local emotes. They brought for me the join back in streaming on twitch. It…

Spell Check as I type please I beg. Every other field on the entire internet I ever type in has it. I remember way back when Beam chat had it. Before chat got "Fancy". I would much rather lose some fancy to get spell check. Even this forum post I'm typing out has Spell as I type!